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As a former BBC journalist I don't relish pointing out the casual on-air dismissal of sincere religious experience, but I felt @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today this Good Friday morning did just that, interviewing Hilton Murray-Philipson, a coronavirus survivor (transcript follows)
“...one of the very powerful images I had in that moment of great distress and struggle was the image of Jesus calming the storm on the sea of Galilee, and that just came to me, and I would like to think that was Jesus Christ coming to me, and helping me in my hour of need.”
Nick Robinson: “Well, it’s so powerful that you have that, partly, I have to say, partly because of the drugs you have to be on in order to be on a ventilator machine, [Hilton heard laughing] which plays tricks with the mind doesn’t it, really."
Christian faith is not about 'tricks with the mind', in intensive care or anywhere else. Please can this be respected, even if not agreed with, not least on Good Friday.
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